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Huangshan >> Hongcun Ancient Village

Attraction Typ: Ancient City
Location: about 80 km from city
Recommend: 4 Star

Hongcun Ancient Village

Hongcun Village is a unique, buffalo-shaped ancient village. It has the reputation of "a village in the Chinese painting" and is listed as one of China's top 10 charming villages and together with Xidi Village which was added to UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage List in 2000.
Locate at the foot of the southwest side of Yellow mountain and not far away from Yixian County, lives a unique, buffalo-shaped ancient village—Hongcun Village (Chinese: 宏村; pinyin: Hóngcūn). It has the reputation of "a village in the Chinese painting" and is listed as one of China's top 10 charming villages and together with Xidi Village which was added to UNESCO's World Cultural Heritage List in 2000.

Hongcun Village is backing on Mt. Leigang and facing Nanhu Lake. A mixture of clear creeks, morning mists, gray tiles, white walls, old houses, stone bridges, water lily ponds, and green hills makes the village elegant and attract a lot of directors go there to make films. The movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", directed by Ang Lee was filmed there, winning Oscars for the Best Foreign Film and Best Cinematography categories. As a result of this, the village enjoys another name of "Residence Museum".

What makes Hongcun Village so unique is that the village was designed by a fengshui master to resemble a cow. The west end of the village, called Leigang Hill, resembles an ox head and that is where two huge trees stand like ox horns. At the front and rear of the village are four bridges that span a Jiyin stream and resemble four legs of the ox. The several hundred well-arranged houses form the body of the ox, and the 1,000-meter-long Jiyin stream that meanders through the village is regarded as its intestines. A crescent pond in the village is the ox's fourth stomach, and a larger South Lake is its reticulum, the second stomach. Both the crescent pond and South Lake are the most charming natural scenery. The crescent pond is as smooth as a mirror and retains verdure all the year round.


 
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